Heresy Era Alpha Legion - Recon Marines built

All right - there's a whole mess of Alpha Legion coming, and I gotta start somewhere, right? My buddy Dave over at Ex Fide Vivo was good enough to give me a unit of recon marines, so Squad Effrit has now been built - the army is now 5% assembled. Heh. He's in the process of building an army of Heresy-Era Salamanders for the same event that I'm building this Alpha Legion army, should be fun to watch the two armies come together over the next couple months! I really dig these sculpts - They are chock full of character and have all sorts of neat details. I'm planning on having all of the characters in the army be un-helmeted and bald, as they strive to look like their Primarch(s) and look alike amongst themselves. "Why yes, I am Alpharius." Hah!

Before I dive in to the army though, I'm planning on doing a couple test minis to try out a couple different paint options so I banged together a couple marines to use as test subjects before committing to anything in resin. Going to try one with a basic blue with hard green edging/washes, one with a blue primer with a green zenithal primer/wash like Ron over at FTW did, and then one using the guide so helpfully provided by the very talented Zab with a bright metal basecoat and blue/green wash method. Should be fun, no idea which one's going to work out the best!

Of course, it's been bucketing down rain for days here, so I can't even primer anything. Hopefully we'll get a break in the weather soon!

Plans are firming up for the Heresy event in January, which will be using the Betrayal event rules that were used over in the UK recently. That means I need to buy, build and paint an entire 3000 point army over the course of the next three months. Gulp! I've got the army planned out and put together a painting chart to track the progress. It's a sea of red!